My SEO Dream Team
Rhea created a meme asking people to design your SEO Dream Team. Who would be on it? Melissa from seoaware tagged me on this one, so here goes. The rules say to choose up to 7 members of the ideal [...]
Aaron disses Google
Google is self-serving. Google's policies are sleazy. Google's hypocrisy increases their profit margins. Google has proven untrustworthy. Those are just some of the things that Aaron Wall says about Google in his latest interview over at LinkJuicy. Interesting reading.
When Is A Directory So Much More Than A Directory?
When is a directory not a directory? When that directory is a "vertical niche destination whose aim is to connect buyers and sellers, and who not only lists sellers, but provides metrics and content solutions to those listed". What the [...]
Yellow Pages teams with Yahoo!
Last month I blogged about the death of the Yellow Pages being premature. The next day, R.H. Donnelley continued its aggressive online push by acquiring Business.com for $345 million. Today, R.H. Donnelley, the No. 3 Yellow Pages publisher in the [...]
Google Releases Adsense Feature and Then Pulls It
Yesterday, the world buzzed about Google finally releasing a feature to all Adsense publishers that allows them to give Google a list of "allowed sites". This is a list of all sites that the publisher confirms is allowed to show [...]
Yellow Pages Goes Social
The beauty of social networks is that they engage users and facilitate enjoyable forums to discuss a variety of topics. One of the significant trends of social networks is that they are beginning to develop a distinct local flavour. Facebook [...]
Jimmy Wales skeptical of wisdom of the crowd
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, on "wisdom of the crowds": "In general, I'm pretty skeptical of the idea. And I'm very skeptical of it being applied to Wikipedia in particular." The concept of a self-regulating online community where the best [...]
Use Wordze 30 days for Free
Wordze is having a promotional deal for a short time, where you can use the service for 30 days for free. I don't know about you, but I can get a whole lot of research done in 30 days. You [...]
Site Comparison Tool
An old pal emailed me the other day about a new SEO tool he created, so I wanted to let you know about it. (Sorry, James, I forgot for a few days). This is a site comparison tool, where you [...]
Wordtracker marries Google Trends
Thanks to the Thirty Day Challenge, WordTracker has put out a very cool new tool, called GTrends, which marries Wordtracker data with Google Trends data. Below are some screenshots, using a popular search phrase. Clicking on the colorful little graph [...]
